Most of us have seen the internet meme that pokes fun at Tyrannosaurus Rex — its arms in particular. Countless humorous images feature the dinosaur in situations where arm length or strength is needed for one reaso...

You know about the paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope. He was famous for his feud with fellow paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh. Cope revealed how Marsh assembled a nonexistent dinosaur called Brontosaurus by mistaken...

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First, dinosaurs had feathers like birds. And now, scientists found that they weren't even cold-blooded like the pre-historic reptilian mons...

Scientists have confronted a mystery of how the Americas were first settled. The first people who walked across the Bering Strait from Asia around 20,000 years ago are the ancestors of Native Americans, yet modern people...

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Do you remember the story of the blind men and the elephant? In that story, a group of blind men felt various parts of an elephant to describe the animal. The man who...

More and more evidence of feathered dinosaurs comes to light as scientists look in different places. Paleontologists in Canada began digging through large museum collections of amber searching for tiny pieces of feathers...

We've learned that dinosaur DNA from millions of years ago is too degraded to be deciphered, but scientists have been sequencing DNA from extinct animals, going further and further back as the art and science of genome s...

Paraceratherium was a rhinoceros that lived around 20 million years ago. Standing tall with a longer neck, it doesn't much resemble a modern rhinoceros. The 15-20 ton giant is the subject of a new book by paleontologist...

What do paleontologists think about the movie Jurassic Park? Like most professionals seeing a movie that's close to home, they spot a lot of inaccuracies, but are overall pleased to have a movie about their subject. Pale...

Paleontologists in China have discovered ancient ancestors of birds that had both front and rear wings.Modern birds generally work with two wings, using small, clawed hind legs for ground travel. A few, like the golden e...